Figured i should finally get my 2024 thread started.
Introductions, Hi I’m Mr.Sparkle and welcome to my grow journal.
This year im gonna be away from home for a few 2-3 week spans so my growing will be a lot less than in the past just to coincide around not having to worry about plants when im away, so we will see how this thread runs.
So refresh for those that are new around here or people who haven’t seen my threads im typically an auto grower that likes to make my own crosses and just play in general.
Setup wise this will be alot of copy and paste from my last year thread with a few changes.
Currently i grow in 3 stealth cabinets as i built them to suit my space and my goals at the time and now they have been that way for years and the stealth aspect keeps things out of display not that i need to legality wise.
All cabinets are about 0.29sqm/3.1sqft a piece at 70cm/27.5" from floor to lights.
My lights have ranged over the years with alot of diy options currently all the cabs are running some Bridgelux 4000k F90’s in a 560mm length top cabinet has 8 strips connected to a xlg-150 and mounted on an aluminum panel , where as the lower cabs have 6 strips each running of xlg-100’s and i just recently went panel free with them and straight mounted the strips to the roof of each cabinet,
Ventilation all cabs are connected to a AC Infinity T6 which pulls through a 6" carbon filter the fan is set at either a 2 or 3 setting wise out of 10 which makes it very silent, routing the air draws underneath both lower cabs and up through the back of the floor then they exhaust through the upper third cab and into a filter box located above that third cab, all cabinets also have two 92mm PC fans mounted on the walls for circulation within the cabinets.
Open
Closed and stealth to a degree.
Control i run some simple and cheap 110v Sinotimers for the lights and just a regular plug in timer as a master controller for my watering pump timers, Watering wise i run some DIY auto waters composed of about $20 of parts those being standard irrigation drip manifold heads connected to some cut down irrigation risers that go into some 1/2" pvc end caps drilled to allow me to stick my little 12v water pumps on the bottom of, they are controlled by some cheap cycle timers.
My reservoirs are just some Ikea Uppsnofsad bins with holes cut in the lids to lower my pots to conserve on some space and allow them to bottom wick if the water level is high enough adding some extra capacity if im away for say a week to 10days. The main pots i use are just some 900ish ml dollarama pots with holes drilled in the bottom of, also have some 400ml ones for starts and some bigger ones ill be trying as well.
Media i use bagged coco and reuse it to a degree unless it gets to a solid root puck stage then it jsut fresher stuff. Nutrient choices range from Jacks, to Megacrop with me currently running levels and ratios like how Athena is run.
